New Zealand’s Nigel Richards, 51, has won his fourth Scrabble World Championship after beating American Jesse Day in this year’s final. His very first word went for 100 points.

That word was “zonular” (“like a zone”), but he also scored 84 with “phenolic” and 68 on “groutier”. His opponent had some big words of his own—scoring 95 for “maledict”(no, not the Doom enemy)—but it wasn’t enough to overcome that 100-point opening, with Richards going on to win the best-of-five final 575 to 452.